Dracotail Deck #757389 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 bosses (Dracotail Arthalion x2, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma x2, plus single-copy Dragons) through Dracotail and Fallen of Albaz material chains; Mulcharmy draw attrition into Level 8 Fusion or Synchro follow-up boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail or Fallen starter, search with Dracotail Lukias or Ketu Dracotail, then Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss; keep hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll, Nibiru) for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with 11 hand traps to interrupt the opponent's first Summon or activation, then Fusion through the resulting board
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw when the field is empty, plus Dracotail recursion from the GY (Dracotail Phryxul, Dracotail Lukias)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal under the TCG BanList (two Forbidden cards and four over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited entries), so under the rubric it gets no normal Final score. The 25 is a capped theoretical value, and the structural read of 58 is shown for reference only. The structural read comes from the system as a whole: a dense hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards), a Mulcharmy draw engine, and Dracotail and Fallen of Albaz Fusion routes to Level 8 bosses, not from an average of card scores. Opening-hand figures are Inferred (the archetype core group is about 96.6% likely to appear in a 5-card opener, while any single 3-copy card is about 25%). Floor and median output are unmeasured because no boards are recorded, and matchup or meta fit stays Provisional. Archetype popularity earned no credit: exact-name purity is 24.3%, and the usage statistics conflict with the card list. Running zero Side Deck cards lowers the score further.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile as primary; Structural computed for reference, Final capped because the deck is Illegal. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal, so theoretical only: raw 0.80*58 + 0.20*40 + modifiers(-12) = 42.4, capped at 25; Meta Power null (Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards)
• Dense archetype core: about 0.966 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred)
• Mulcharmy draw engine turns opponent Summons into card advantage
• Several Level 8 Fusion boss options in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and four over-limit entries
• 0 Side Deck cards, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Exact-name purity 24.3%; several Extra Deck bosses (Granguignol, Titaniklad, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Mixousia, Secreterion Dragon) share no engine with the rest
• No recorded boards, so floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) gates the Albaz-referencing Fusion lines (Branded Fusion, Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail, Blazing Cartesia)
• Dragon Fusion material supply from Dracotail Faimena, Urgula, Pan and Fallen of the White Dragon; one stopped starter stalls the line
• Illegal list must be corrected before the deck can be played in any legal format

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: six violations from the TCG BanList check (Called by the Grave and Albion Forbidden; Branded in High Spirits and Droll over Limited cap; Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous over Semi-Limited cap); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are within TCG size rules; Card stats and text read from the resolved card list; Exact-name purity 24.3%; 0 Side Deck cards
• Inferred: Primary strategy Combo, from text and composition with no boards; Opening-hand and going-second probabilities from the hypergeometric model; Engine consistency and interruption resilience reads (D1, D2, D5)
• Provisional: Matchup and meta fit (D13); Meta Power (null); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list: Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon, Secreterion Dragon, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon and The Dragon that Devours the Dogma are marked absent or missing_core but appear in the card list; the card list was treated as authoritative No Side Deck in the export No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample